Bangladeshi officials are investigating a
claim of responsibility by al Qaeda's wing in South
Asia for the machete murder of a secular blogger in
the capital of Dhaka.
"We are seriously looking into it," said Anisul Huq,
Bangladesh's minister for law.
"Unless we are totally sure that this claim ... is
authentic, I don't think we will be commenting on it."
According to the jihadist monitoring group SITE , Al
Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) claims that
the movement's Bangladesh branch "carried out an
operation to slaughter" Nazimuddin Samad.
Bangladesh police say the 26-year old writer and
graduate student was ambushed by attackers
Wednesday night. The attackers slashed Samad with
machetes and shot him before escaping the scene
on a motorcycle.
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